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S H R 

 CLUB. Verbascum 



ply of sap to the grapes is too mucli SHEPHERD'S 



diininislied, and tlie parts which thus Thnpsus. 



fail of support immediately begin to SIIIFTINC. See Potting and One- 

 decay; this is an effect always the con- shift System. 



sequence of a diminished supply of sap, SHREDS for fastening trees to walls 



apparent either in the leaves, flower, are best made of the list or selvage torn 



or fruit. The disease, like every other from black or blue cloth, and maybe 



putrefaction, does not advance rapidly obtained of any tailor. The smallest 



unless there be much moisture in the possible number of shreds, and the nar- 



atmosphere. Shanking never appears rowest consistent with strength should 



in the grape if the roots of the vine are be employed ; for wherever the shred 



within the house. Shanking in the envelops the branch, the wood beneath 



cabbage arises from a very different is never so well ripened as those parts 



cause, viz., the freezing of the stalk of exposed to the light and air, which are 



thecabbage just where it comes in con- so essential to enable the bark to as- 



tact with the soil. The best preventive similate and separate from the sap those 



is dressing the soil with salt, about five secretions which are required for the 



bushels per acre, late in the autumn 



SHARP CEDAR. Acacia oxycedrus 

 and Juniperus oxycedrus. 



SHEARS are of various kinds, dif- 

 fering in form according to the purpose 

 for which they are intended. Hedge- 

 shears for clipping hedges are the most 

 common. 



Sliding Pruning Shears with a move- 

 able centre so as to make a drawing 

 cut when used as when the pruning 

 knife is employed. See Averruncator 



Fig. 156. 



next year's growth. Shreds should 

 always be long enough to permit the 

 ends to be doubled over, so that the 

 nail may pass through four thicknesses 

 of the cloth, otherwise theylook ragged 

 and are liable to tear away from the 

 nail. If old shreds are re-used, they 

 should be previously boiled for a few 

 minutes to destroy any insect-eggs, or 

 larvae thev may contain. 



SHRIVELLING of the berries of the 

 grape in stoves arises from the roots of 

 The drawing shows the ! t'le vine not supplying a sufficiency of 

 smaller size, used with one sap. This occurs if the roots are in a 

 cold heavy soil, or are vegetating in an 

 outside border, the temperature of 

 which is too low compared with that of 

 the stove. In the first case, thorough 

 draining and the incorporation of cal- 

 careous rubbish ; and in the second 



hand. See Scissors. The 

 large size, which has wood 

 handles, will, when em- 

 ployed with both hands, 

 cut through a bough full 

 three inches in circum 



ference, with the greatest case, protection to the border and stem. 



ease. 



Verge Shears are merely 

 the hedge shears set near- 

 ly at a right angle on long 

 handles tor the conveni- 

 ence of the gardener in 

 clipping the sides of box 

 edging, and the verge of 

 grass plots. 

 Turf Shears are set also at an angle, 

 but in a different direction for cutting 

 the tops of edgings, and grass growing 

 in corners unapproachable by the scythe. 

 SHEEP LAUREL. Kalmiaangusti- 

 folia. 



SHELLS. See Animal Matters. 

 SHELTER. See Screen. 

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will remove the evil. 



SHRUBBERY is a garden, or portion 

 of a garden, devoted to the cultivation 

 of shrubs. It is not necessary, as Mr. 

 Glenny observes, " That there sliould 

 be any flowers or borders to constitute 

 a shrubbery, but there should be great 

 taste in forming clumps, and grouping 

 the various foliages and stylesof growth. 

 The groundwork in such a garden con- 

 sists of gravel walks and lawn. If flow- 

 ers be intermixed, or, which is very 

 generally adopte<l, there be a space lefl 

 all round the clumps to grow flowers 

 in, it becomes a dressed or pleasure 

 ground, rather than a shrubbery. — 

 Though any part of a ground in which 

 shrubs form the principal feature, is 

 Two species. ; still called a shrubbery. — Gard. and 



Hardy deciduous trees. Layers. Peat Prac. F/or 



and loam, or common soil. I SHRUBS are trees ofa dvirarf growth, 



SHEPHERD'S BEARD. Ar nopog on. \noi exceeding in height twelve or fif- 



